What did you do today?
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Topic: What did you do today?
Posted By: Scooby_simon
Subject: What did you do today?
Date Posted: 22 Dec 05 at 3:54pm
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I went sailing in anice gentle F2 (maybe just into 3) at Grafham. Had the lake to myself just about (one other laser was out for a few minutes, and a certain Vareo sailor had finished for the day by then. Just playing with the GPS and got a Max speed on 17.1 Kts (and max speed actually plotted was19mph).
Not bad for so little wind. Just need LOTS mopre wind before the closing date for the Speedfreaks comp! ------------- Wanna learn to Ski - PM me.. |
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Posted By: 5420
Date Posted: 22 Dec 05 at 4:02pm
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yer it was not widy enof for me but its going to be windy next tuesday i heard can not whight ------------- |
Posted By: Sarah B
Date Posted: 22 Dec 05 at 4:33pm
Grrh - I sat and swore at my computer. Roll on the weekend - where there is very little wind forecast  ------------- A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. |
Posted By: kasey3000
Date Posted: 22 Dec 05 at 5:20pm
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sat at home sulking cos I couldn't go sailing ahhhh.....can't w8 till the 7th jan...next time i'm gonna be sailing me thinks ------------- 49er 908 |
Posted By: 5420
Date Posted: 22 Dec 05 at 5:29pm
thats a long time kasey 3000 ------------- |
Posted By: kasey3000
Date Posted: 22 Dec 05 at 5:41pm
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I know oh well.....as soon as March gets here, i'll probably be moaning that I've got toooo many opens clashing ------------- 49er 908 |
Posted By: 49erGBR735HSC
Date Posted: 22 Dec 05 at 5:54pm
I went to the DENTIST............ARGH!!!!!!! Not too bad today but I'm getting three fillings tommorrow  
------------- Dennis Watson 49er GBR735 http://www.helensburghsailingclub.co.uk/ - Helensburgh S.C http://www.noblemarine.co.uk/home.php3?affid=560 - Boat Insurance from Noble Marine |
Posted By: kasey3000
Date Posted: 22 Dec 05 at 6:05pm
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ouch...not nice ------------- 49er 908 |
Posted By: 49erGBR735HSC
Date Posted: 22 Dec 05 at 6:13pm
Ouch, trying not to think about tommorrow, appointment at 10:20, so
can't go drinking tonight, imagine being hungover with drills being put
in your mouth...... What makes it worse is me in my infinate wisdom
decided to clean the boat when it was getting dark yesterday and it was
absolutely freezing....... and I've just made my cold ten times worse
and can't go 10 seconds without coughing. Need to get a nurse to jump
on me
------------- Dennis Watson 49er GBR735 http://www.helensburghsailingclub.co.uk/ - Helensburgh S.C http://www.noblemarine.co.uk/home.php3?affid=560 - Boat Insurance from Noble Marine |
Posted By: kasey3000
Date Posted: 22 Dec 05 at 7:02pm
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oh do behave yourself the dentist thing aint tooo bad.....it's the non-drinkin bit that seems painful 2 me ------------- 49er 908 |
Posted By: 49erGBR735HSC
Date Posted: 22 Dec 05 at 7:10pm
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Getting up before 10 on a holiday blows, then got to go Christmas shopping looking like the Elephant Man...
------------- Dennis Watson 49er GBR735 http://www.helensburghsailingclub.co.uk/ - Helensburgh S.C http://www.noblemarine.co.uk/home.php3?affid=560 - Boat Insurance from Noble Marine |
Posted By: tgruitt
Date Posted: 22 Dec 05 at 7:20pm
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I braved the general public to go xmas shopping. One thing i have learnt is that people should leave kids at home, should walk faster, and also not ask me questions. I think im going to shop online next year.!!! ------------- Needs to sail more... |
Posted By: Strawberry
Date Posted: 22 Dec 05 at 7:31pm
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Went on a big mission to find somewhere to buy drawing pins! ------------- Cherub 2649 "Dangerous Strawberry |
Posted By: bigwavedave
Date Posted: 22 Dec 05 at 7:31pm
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Bahh Humbug
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Posted By: kasey3000
Date Posted: 22 Dec 05 at 7:31pm
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what other kind of shopping is there? ------------- 49er 908 |
Posted By: les5269
Date Posted: 22 Dec 05 at 7:56pm
Just work for me  Has everyone else finished now?I'm back in tomorrow!!!!------------- 49er 531 & 5000 5025 and a mirror(now gone to mirror heaven)! http://www.grafham.org/" rel="nofollow - Grafham water Sailing Club The greatest inland sailing in the country |
Posted By: kasey3000
Date Posted: 22 Dec 05 at 8:13pm
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well u know what they say...."no rest 4 the wicked" ------------- 49er 908 |
Posted By: CurlyBen
Date Posted: 22 Dec 05 at 8:32pm
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I haven't finished yet either Les, but tomorrow's my last day for good!
Well, until my exams are over anyway - I prefer work, at least I get
paid!
------------- RS800 GBR848 Weston SC |
Posted By: les5269
Date Posted: 22 Dec 05 at 9:39pm
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Pay helps buy all these toys(cars,boats,kites etc etc!)Still want a kayak tho! ------------- 49er 531 & 5000 5025 and a mirror(now gone to mirror heaven)! http://www.grafham.org/" rel="nofollow - Grafham water Sailing Club The greatest inland sailing in the country |
Posted By: kasey3000
Date Posted: 22 Dec 05 at 9:49pm
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did i ever tell u les that I am vvvvv good @ tipping people out of kayaks??? tipped my old helm out once....he couldnt turn it over so he had to undo his dry cag and got absolutley soaked.....including his car keys ------------- 49er 908 |
Posted By: CurlyBen
Date Posted: 22 Dec 05 at 9:52pm
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Got a great trick to play on kayakers when in a power boat, it involves shallow drive and a lot of water
------------- RS800 GBR848 Weston SC |
Posted By: 49erGBR735HSC
Date Posted: 22 Dec 05 at 9:53pm
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We had some pupils rent out a wayfarer and they put all their car keys,
wallets and phones into a plastic bag and dumped the bag on the floor
of the boat........ half an hour later the boat was on its side with
the bag at the bottom of the sea.
------------- Dennis Watson 49er GBR735 http://www.helensburghsailingclub.co.uk/ - Helensburgh S.C http://www.noblemarine.co.uk/home.php3?affid=560 - Boat Insurance from Noble Marine |
Posted By: les5269
Date Posted: 22 Dec 05 at 9:57pm
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Your all so nasty It's going to be a sea kayak anyway so you just sit on it ! ------------- 49er 531 & 5000 5025 and a mirror(now gone to mirror heaven)! http://www.grafham.org/" rel="nofollow - Grafham water Sailing Club The greatest inland sailing in the country |
Posted By: 49erGBR735HSC
Date Posted: 22 Dec 05 at 10:00pm
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Go windsurfing instead, I reckon it would be much more fun
------------- Dennis Watson 49er GBR735 http://www.helensburghsailingclub.co.uk/ - Helensburgh S.C http://www.noblemarine.co.uk/home.php3?affid=560 - Boat Insurance from Noble Marine |
Posted By: kasey3000
Date Posted: 22 Dec 05 at 10:00pm
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they're the easiest to tip people out of!!!!! ------------- 49er 908 |
Posted By: les5269
Date Posted: 22 Dec 05 at 10:02pm
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Never tried windsurfing so not sure.As for tipping out thats what a kayaks all about ------------- 49er 531 & 5000 5025 and a mirror(now gone to mirror heaven)! http://www.grafham.org/" rel="nofollow - Grafham water Sailing Club The greatest inland sailing in the country |
Posted By: CurlyBen
Date Posted: 22 Dec 05 at 10:02pm
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then tow the kayak off! ------------- RS800 GBR848 Weston SC |
Posted By: 49erGBR735HSC
Date Posted: 22 Dec 05 at 10:05pm
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My pal does wake-boarding..........all we need is a tow rope for the 49er now.......
------------- Dennis Watson 49er GBR735 http://www.helensburghsailingclub.co.uk/ - Helensburgh S.C http://www.noblemarine.co.uk/home.php3?affid=560 - Boat Insurance from Noble Marine |
Posted By: les5269
Date Posted: 22 Dec 05 at 10:07pm
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Seen that on a 5000 going downwind looked cool but glad I was'nt on the board ------------- 49er 531 & 5000 5025 and a mirror(now gone to mirror heaven)! http://www.grafham.org/" rel="nofollow - Grafham water Sailing Club The greatest inland sailing in the country |
Posted By: kasey3000
Date Posted: 22 Dec 05 at 10:11pm
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we'll hav 2 stick u on the board goin off ur 49er then...or another one @ grafham i can think of ------------- 49er 908 |
Posted By: 49erGBR735HSC
Date Posted: 22 Dec 05 at 10:11pm
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My pal asked me what happens when we tack or gybe, and I just said to
him you do wake-boarding so you tell us..........He's still keen on the
idea but insists we need to have a rib to acompany us, good chance for
photos too!
------------- Dennis Watson 49er GBR735 http://www.helensburghsailingclub.co.uk/ - Helensburgh S.C http://www.noblemarine.co.uk/home.php3?affid=560 - Boat Insurance from Noble Marine |
Posted By: Isis
Date Posted: 22 Dec 05 at 10:17pm
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I do a lot of marathon kayaking in very skinny boats and beleive me,
paddling near big river cruisers doing their best to make as much wash
as possible is not ammusing!"
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Posted By: les5269
Date Posted: 22 Dec 05 at 10:29pm
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Is it fun tho? ------------- 49er 531 & 5000 5025 and a mirror(now gone to mirror heaven)! http://www.grafham.org/" rel="nofollow - Grafham water Sailing Club The greatest inland sailing in the country |
Posted By: Isis
Date Posted: 22 Dec 05 at 10:35pm
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when your confident and have enough time to take the waves head on its
fine... otherwise your in the drink and faced with a deep water
re-entry which very few people can pull off or a long swim to the bank
towing a waterlogged boat
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Posted By: les5269
Date Posted: 22 Dec 05 at 10:39pm
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Oh ------------- 49er 531 & 5000 5025 and a mirror(now gone to mirror heaven)! http://www.grafham.org/" rel="nofollow - Grafham water Sailing Club The greatest inland sailing in the country |
Posted By: les5269
Date Posted: 24 Dec 05 at 6:03pm
Still surfing over the waves has got to be great ! And it's another water sport you can do if theres no wind------------- 49er 531 & 5000 5025 and a mirror(now gone to mirror heaven)! http://www.grafham.org/" rel="nofollow - Grafham water Sailing Club The greatest inland sailing in the country |
Posted By: 49erGBR735HSC
Date Posted: 03 Jun 06 at 4:54am
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What about wake-boarding then???.........Or water-ski-ing as you subtley call it Les? ------------- Dennis Watson 49er GBR735 http://www.helensburghsailingclub.co.uk/ - Helensburgh S.C http://www.noblemarine.co.uk/home.php3?affid=560 - Boat Insurance from Noble Marine |
Posted By: les5269
Date Posted: 03 Jun 06 at 4:58pm
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Same thing you still follow a noisy boat on the end of a string ! ------------- 49er 531 & 5000 5025 and a mirror(now gone to mirror heaven)! http://www.grafham.org/" rel="nofollow - Grafham water Sailing Club The greatest inland sailing in the country |
Posted By: gonzo
Date Posted: 03 Jun 06 at 5:15pm
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Wakeboarding is definately the thing tio be doing when theres no wind. especially when your a poor instructor/student and you have to wakboard in front of the hotels off the commitee boat with the club name plasetred down the side. What brilliant advertising, Club didnt think so and that got banned. ------------- Go Big or Go home or sail a 49er!!! |
Posted By: 49erGBR735HSC
Date Posted: 03 Jun 06 at 5:18pm
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.........or you could relax at the sailing club bar instead...................... ------------- Dennis Watson 49er GBR735 http://www.helensburghsailingclub.co.uk/ - Helensburgh S.C http://www.noblemarine.co.uk/home.php3?affid=560 - Boat Insurance from Noble Marine |
Posted By: gonzo
Date Posted: 03 Jun 06 at 5:20pm
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you could i agree and with the cheapest beer in town its all good, but when the girls want to go boarding you got to take them make an arse of yourself get hurt so you get the sympathy. ------------- Go Big or Go home or sail a 49er!!! |
Posted By: les5269
Date Posted: 03 Jun 06 at 5:32pm
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And get someone else to drive you home ...... Back on topic...I went to work today ------------- 49er 531 & 5000 5025 and a mirror(now gone to mirror heaven)! http://www.grafham.org/" rel="nofollow - Grafham water Sailing Club The greatest inland sailing in the country |
Posted By: Isis
Date Posted: 03 Jun 06 at 5:36pm
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I 'revised'
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Posted By: les5269
Date Posted: 03 Jun 06 at 5:39pm
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You'll be getting a reputation soon ! ------------- 49er 531 & 5000 5025 and a mirror(now gone to mirror heaven)! http://www.grafham.org/" rel="nofollow - Grafham water Sailing Club The greatest inland sailing in the country |
Posted By: Isis
Date Posted: 03 Jun 06 at 5:50pm
Revision is for people with no self-confidance ------------- |
Posted By: gonzo
Date Posted: 03 Jun 06 at 5:53pm
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I revised I have self confidence...........Im confident that i need to revise and im confident that if i dont revise ill fail ------------- Go Big or Go home or sail a 49er!!! |
Posted By: Prince Buster
Date Posted: 03 Jun 06 at 6:41pm
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I've got myself stuck in a corner with my parents nagging me to do
revision.......i now resort to telling them im going on msn all day but
then actually do some revsion. Well you can't show any weakness
can you!!! or let them have the self-satisfaction of knowing you obey what they say lol! ------------- international moth - "what what?" |
Posted By: 49erGBR735HSC
Date Posted: 03 Jun 06 at 7:25pm
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I spoke to Les, Kita and Isis................... ------------- Dennis Watson 49er GBR735 http://www.helensburghsailingclub.co.uk/ - Helensburgh S.C http://www.noblemarine.co.uk/home.php3?affid=560 - Boat Insurance from Noble Marine |
Posted By: Isis
Date Posted: 03 Jun 06 at 7:34pm
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Of course Im joking, revisions good kids, revisions fun... For example, todays revision:  ------------- |
Posted By: 49erGBR735HSC
Date Posted: 03 Jun 06 at 7:57pm
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What package did you use for that Ben, was it Rhino? Very nice anyway ------------- Dennis Watson 49er GBR735 http://www.helensburghsailingclub.co.uk/ - Helensburgh S.C http://www.noblemarine.co.uk/home.php3?affid=560 - Boat Insurance from Noble Marine |
Posted By: Isis
Date Posted: 03 Jun 06 at 8:02pm
Yup Rhino... Far from finished but cheers 
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Posted By: 49erGBR735HSC
Date Posted: 03 Jun 06 at 8:20pm
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I don't really use Rhino, I prefer max-surf, got NAACA profiles etc. Would be good to learn, I know KingFisher use Rhino for Yacht Design but Princess still use Auto-Cad. If you can get used to all the programs just now, it will pay off big time when you get to Uni. ------------- Dennis Watson 49er GBR735 http://www.helensburghsailingclub.co.uk/ - Helensburgh S.C http://www.noblemarine.co.uk/home.php3?affid=560 - Boat Insurance from Noble Marine |